Molecular responses to acute exercise and their relevance for adaptations in skeletal muscle to exercise training

B Egan, AP Sharples - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Repeated, episodic bouts of skeletal muscle contraction undertaken frequently as structured
exercise training are a potent stimulus for physiological adaptation in many organs …

Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions

MD Roberts, JJ McCarthy… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Mechanisms underlying mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy have
been extensively researched since the landmark report by Morpurgo (1897) of “work …

Transcriptomic profiling of skeletal muscle adaptations to exercise and inactivity

NJ Pillon, BM Gabriel, L Dollet, JAB Smith… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms underlying the response to exercise and inactivity are not fully
understood. We propose an innovative approach to profile the skeletal muscle transcriptome …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

R Furrer, JA Hawley, C Handschin - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external
stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and …

High-intensity exercise and mitochondrial biogenesis: current controversies and future research directions

DJ Bishop, J Botella, AJ Genders, MJC Lee… - …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
It is well established that different types of exercise can provide a powerful stimulus for
mitochondrial biogenesis. However, there are conflicting findings in the literature, and a …

Human skeletal muscle possesses an epigenetic memory of hypertrophy

RA Seaborne, J Strauss, M Cocks, S Shepherd… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
It is unknown if adult human skeletal muscle has an epigenetic memory of earlier encounters
with growth. We report, for the first time in humans, genome-wide DNA methylation (850,000 …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in humans

C Davegårdh, S García-Calzón, K Bacos, C Ling - Molecular metabolism, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial, polygenic disease caused by
impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

Physical exercise and epigenetic modifications in skeletal muscle

M Widmann, AM Nieß, B Munz - Sports medicine, 2019 - Springer
Physical activity and sports play major roles in the overall health status of humans. It is well
known that regular exercise helps to lower the risk for a broad variety of health problems …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular aspects of the exercise response and training adaptation in skeletal muscle

R Furrer, C Handschin - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle plasticity enables an enormous potential to adapt to various internal and
external stimuli and perturbations. Most notably, changes in contractile activity evoke a …

DNA methylation across the genome in aged human skeletal muscle tissue and muscle-derived cells: the role of HOX genes and physical activity

DC Turner, PP Gorski, MF Maasar, RA Seaborne… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle tissue demonstrates global hypermethylation with age. However,
methylome changes across the time-course of differentiation in aged human muscle derived …